
Roe Ethridge
IT SEEMS TO ME that the two worlds of art photography and commercial photography are like parallel universes. Both go through their ruthless cycles, aware of each other but too busy with their own internal battles to look outward. There are many exceptionsinstances where the universes do intersectand I am grateful for those. But I think there are functional differences between the fields that may never be resolved.
Some of these differences are actually important to me, and I would hate to see them disappear. For example, within the commercial image there is generally an understood